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It’s easy to feel jealous when you read about other people making boatloads of money while your bank balance is at -59.65; but jealousy does more to keep you back and nothing to propel you forward. When you read stories like those published in this MSN moneycentral piece “Millionaires tell how they did it” try to take away as much positive as you can from the stories and avoid feelings of jealousy.

The one thing you should always note when you read stories about people making millions of dollars from their business ventures, is that the people in the stories always have something extra, whether it’s skill, knowledge or talent.

In reality, for most of us anyway, it’s not easy to make millions of dollars. If it was easy, you wouldn’t be here reading and I wouldn’t be here writing. We’d already be millionaires. Of course you’ll read otherwise on many blogs. You’ll read that making a million dollars really isn’t that difficult. You’ll read that the number of households in the United States with a net income of at least 1 million continues to increase rapidly. That’s wonderful news, but your household still isn’t among that list of households with a net income of at least 1 million. What are you missing? How come you’re out there climbing with the rest of them but you just can’t seem to get to the top?

Maybe that’s a question you need not ask just out of sheer frustration when you read about people making it to the top, but in an effort to honestly assess your situation. Maybe you’re trying to climb a mountain that requires a specific skill, special knowledge or a talent you simply lack. Anyone can be a millionaire, that’s true enough; but not everyone can be a millionaire artist. If you can’t paint or draw, how are you going to make millions as an artist? Not everyone can be a millionaire supermodel. If you don’t have supermodel looks who’s going to pay you millions to model? The point is, make sure that you have what it takes to do what you’re trying to do. Don’t get jealous of other people for making it to the top. Accept that these people had that something extra and if you don’t have it, you can try to acquire it or you can try to work around it, or you can go look for another mountain to climb that’s not impossible for you to conquer.